I look across a salt marsh in South Wellfleet, Mass., lush in midsummer, the emerald cordgrass swaying in the sea breeze. A marsh hawk cruises low, searching for voles. But at the marsh’s edge, a ...

With an eerie name and ominous presence, ghost forests can be unmistakable signs of a rapidly shifting climate. However, researchers are pointing to another cause for their formation in North Carolina ...

CAPERS ISLAND — Salt-scored ghosts stand watch along the shore of this small Charleston County island. Colloquially known as "Boneyard Beach," it's one of many ghost forests that run like veins along ...

A $75 million proposal contains measures to build infrastructure to facilitate recreation and tourism.

Rising sea levels are contributing to a phenomenon called "ghost forests," which are groups of dead and dying standing trees that have been drowned by intruding saltwater. And all along the eastern ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. and MILFORD’S NECK — It's a haunting graveyard of a different kind. What's happening there isn't supernatural, though. Rather, it's driven by humans. It is a “ghost forest.” “Most of ...

Scientists sent hurricane-level floods into a Maryland forest to find out what extreme weather and sea-level rise mean for coastal woodlands Kristen Goodhue PNNL Earth scientist Peter Regier (left) ...